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Pte. Andrew Menzies
British Army 10th Btn. Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
(d.27th Jan 1916)
Andrew Menzies served with the 10th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) and died on the 27th January 1916. He is remembered on the Loos Memorial.
Pte. Charles James Menzies
British Army 6th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Perth
(d.9th Apr 1918)
My grandmother's brother, Charles Menzies was killed in France on 9th of April 1918 in the La Bassee region during the German Spring Offensive of March and April 1918. He served with the 6th Seaforth Highlanders. His best friend also died around the same time and place, they had been choir boys in church in Perth, Scotland. Two candlesticks bearing each of their names are still on the altar in the church where they were in the choir, in Perth.
Pte. Sydney James Menzies
British Army 3rd Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
from:Derby
(d.1921)
Sydney Menzies joined the 3rd Dorset Regiment in Sept 1914 and was attached to the 7th Royal Munster Fusiliers. He entered the theatre of war on 15th of October 1915 in the Balkans. He is believed to have fought at Kosturino and also saw service in France on the Somme and Belgium at Ypres. He was gassed twice in the war and died of the effects of the 2nd gassing in 1921.
Rfmn. Henry Mepham
British Army 15th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Herstmonceaux, Hailsham, Sussex
(d.22nd Nov 1917)
Born in Heathfield, East Sussex, Rifleman Henry Mepham was the son of Frederick and Caroline Mepham, of Bemzells Cottage, Herstmonceux, Hailsham, Sussex. He enlisted in Brighton and served with the Royal Sussex Regiment (Service No: 4909). Henry Mepham was aged 19 when he was killed in action during the Battle of Cambrai. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, and on the Bodle Street Green War Memorial in the grounds of St John The Evangelist Church, Sussex.
Cpl. Mercer
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
Pte. Alfred Sidney "Sonny" Mercer
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Farnham, Surrey
(d.29th Apr 1918)
Alfred Mercer was not yet 16 when he enlisted in Aldershot or Guildford in September 1916. He was the eldest of seven children born to a working family in Farnham which had its roots in Dorset, Kent and the Surrey-Hampshire borders.
The 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment were quickly in the thick of things on the Western Front. Their involvement in the Battles of the Somme in 1916 included: fighting on the Ancre (Hamel); Battle of the Thiepval Ridge; Battle of the Ancre Heights; capture of the Schwaben Redoubt; capture of Stuff Trench; Battle of the Ancre, and in 1917: Battles of Ypres (3rd Ypres); Battle of the Pilckem Ridge; Battle of Langemarck; Battle of the Menin Road Ridge; Second Battle of Passchendaele.
In 1918 the 11th were at the Battle of St Quentin; part of action on the Somme crossings; at the Battle of Bapaume and the Battle of Rozieres; the Battles of the Lys including fighting on the Wytschaete Ridge; the First Battle of Kemmel Ridge; the Second Battle of Kemmel Ridge. On 29th April Sonny fought in the Battle of the Scherpenberg, where he was killed, aged just 19, along with many hundred other men in the battalion.
His name is on the memorial at Tyne Cot Cemetery, and on a more modest, but certainly heartfelt, memorial in Gostrey Meadows in the centre of Farnham, only 500 yards or so from where he was born and raised. We have no portrait of him; therefore our only photographic memories are of these two memorials.
It is almost beyond our modern comprehension to understand what this young man, like so many others, would have endured in his short but fiercely-lived life. His family remembers him with love and respect.
Mercy for Sonny Mercer
Barbed wire buried
deep in the fields I am grown in,
enmeshed roots, sods, earth,
bound tight,
scented loam
holding light and rain and warmth,
rusting the wire,
burnishing...
Sap rising
Sap quenched
BarbBitingFlesh
Devouring
Me.
by Julia Birch, 1916
Pte. George Mercer MID
British Army 5th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Sydenham, Kent
George Mercer was a great uncle of mine on my father's mother's side. I know he was attached to the Royal West Kent Regiment but not exactly sure when yet. He went across to France on or about the 18th August 1914 with the 5th Field Ambulance and remained with them until until 1917 (date to be confirmed). He had enlisted in 1907, went onto the reserve list when he joined the Merchant Navy in 1910. He was recalled in August 1914 and survived the carnage and went back to the Merchant Navy immediately after the war. He stayed with the Merchant Navy until the 2nd World War began when he left within weeks of it starting I am still trying establish where he served in WW2. I have a few naval leads which I am currently following up at the moment. I am intending to take a look at the 5th Field Ambulance Unit diaries hoping there might be some mention of his actions which earns him the MID in 1914/15.
Pte. George Mercer
British Army 1st Btn. Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
from:Kirkhamgate, Wakefield
(d.14th December 1916)
BSM. John Mercer DCM.
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:St Helens
John Mercer was born in 1874 in St Helens, Merseyside. He joined the Army in 1892 and served most of his army life in India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
He joined the Battery on 5/3/1915 as a Sergeant Major and landed in Le Havre with the Battery on 11/7/15. He later went on to 64th Heavy Artillery Group and was awarded the DCM for action at Trones Wood.
L/Cpl. Samuel Mercer
British Army 14th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Samuel Mercer
British Army 6th Btn. South Wales Borderers
from:Widnes, Cheshire
(d.11th Nov 1918)
Samuel Mercer was born in Widnes in Cheshire in 1901 to Samuel Mercer and Maria Cain. He served with the 6th South Wales Borderers He died in France on 11th of November 1918-11-11 and is buried in Pont De Nieppe Communal Cemetery, Nieppe, near Armentieres, France.
I believe he may have been my grandfather's brother, I am searching for a definitive answer as Ancestry DNA evidence evidence is continuing.
Pte. Thomas Mercer
British Army 6th Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
(d.11th Apr 1916)
Thomas Mercer died 11th April 1916 and is commemorated on the Basra War Memorial in Iraq.
Driver Thomas Mercer
British Army 101st Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Kensington, London
Thomas Mercer is my 2x great grandfather, a marine salesman from Kensington. He was the eldest son of Thomas A Mercer and Alice Heath, enlisting when he was 36, leaving behind a 4 month pregnant wife Louise and 3 children Thomas (15), Lillian (12), Rose (4).
Signal Boy. Edward Arthur Merchant
Royal Naval Reserve HM Trawler Evangel
from:Leicester
(d.25th March 1917)
Edward Arthur Merchant was killed in action on the 25th of March 1917, aged 17. He was a signal boy on the HMS Evangel, sunk off Milford Haven by U Boat UC48. He is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth and also on the Milford Haven Memorial. Edward was the son of George and Lilly Merchant of Rudkin St, Leicester .
Cpl. J. S. Mercurius
British West Indies Regiment
(d.27th June 1918)
Corporal Mercurius is buried in the St. George's (River Road) Cemetery in Grenada, Centre Cem. Grave 257
Pte. Charles James Meredith
British Army 8th (Service) Batallion Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Tewkesbury, Glos. UK
(d.27th July 1916)
CharlesMeredith was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire in 1880. He was the son of Thomas and Emmeline(nee James) Meredith. He was married to Agnes Maria (nee Clapham) Meredith. His children were John, William T, Jack Thomas, Lillian May, and Leslie C J.
Private Meredith died from wounds he received from the Battle of the Somme in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, July 27, 1915. He is buried in the Cheltenham Cemetery.
Pte. Ernest Meredith
British Army 2nd Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Grimsby
(d.4th Apr 1917)
Frank Meredith
British Army Flintshire and Denbighshire Yeomanry
from:Mold
My Grandfather, Frank Meredith, was a member of the Denbighshire Yeomanary. He fought in Egypt in about 1916/17, not too sure as my Dad was only 12 when his Dad died, he just remembers the two horses frank's father bought him as my father has followed in his footsteps with the equine interest,as i have. We do have pics of Frank in uniform, and have a curb chain off the bridle,and only one spur off his boots!
Gnr. John Raymond "Jack" Meredith
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Enfield, Middlesex, London
My Grandfather John Meredith was a Gunner in France during WW1 and may have been in Ypres and The Somme. We are still researching this but Grandad lived in Enfield and survived the War
Pte. Stephen Meredith
British Army 14th (Swansea) Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Neath
(d.5th Aug 1917)
My Great Grandfather, Stephen Meredith, never married to my Great Grandma but had 2 children with her, my Grandmother being one them. I know so very little about him, except that he is commemorated on the Lye and Woolescote War Memorials, also on the School memorial and also on the Menin Gate as he has no known grave. He was killed at 3rd Ypres, Passchendaele and now being a great grandmother myself, I would just like to find out more about this man of whom I am so proud to call my Great Grandfather. If anyone can help with any further information I would love to know about him.
Pte. Stephen Meredith
British Army 14th (1st Swansea) Btn. Welch Regiment
from:Lye, Wollescote
(d.5th Aug 1917)
My great-grandfather, Stephen Meredith served with the 14th (1st Swansea) Battalion, Welch Regiment. He fathered 2 children with Florence Edith Williams and they never married (Florence was still married to her previous husband). He enlisted in Swansea and was killed during 3rd Ypres, otherwise known as Passchendaele. He has no known grave but is commemorated on Menin Gate as well as the War Memorial in Woolescote.
Pte. W. Meredith
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. William Harold Meredith
British Army 1st Btn Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Woodhouse Mill
(d.3rd Oct 1918)
William Meredith was killed in action during an attack on the villages of Le Catelet and Gouy, near the St. Quentin canal. He was my Great-great Grandad.
Pte. Frances Richard Merifield
Australian Imperial Force 21st Battalion
from:Romsey, Victoria, Australia
Frank Merifield is one of 348 names on a World War 1 signature quilt from Victoria, Australia. This is his story compiled from his military record.
Frank enlisted on the 1st of February 1916 at Trafalger in Gippsland, They had been living at nearby Thorpdale. His wife Eva, was noted as his next of kin and Frank initially put her address down as Romsey but was later changed to Strathmerton, Vic when she returned to live near her family. One month after enlisting Frank entered camp at Ascot Vale, in A company, 10th Depot Battalion. On 25th March 1916 he was transferred to Williamstown for 3 days. A week later he embarked at Melbourne per HMAT A14 Euripides. On the quilt Frank's rank is shown as Signaller. He never held this rank. He was always a Private. Some troops disembarked from the Euripides in Egypt. The 29th Battalion reinforcements disembarked in Suez on 12th May 1916 and the 60th Battalion reinforcements in Alexandria on 25th May. There is no mention in his records where Frank disembarked. As the 21st Battalion had moved from Egypt to France in March, it is likely the reinforcements went on to England and the training camps on Salisbury Plain.
The next entry in his file is in England when he transferred from No 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Harefield to the Military Convalescent Hospital, Epsom on 13th July 1916 after pneumonia. When he had been admitted to hospital in the first place is not noted. The Woodcote Park Military Convalescent Hospital, Epsom, was staffed by the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The original 500 beds in September 1915 grew by August 1916, when Frank was there, to 3800 beds. Soldiers, including Frank, spent 6 weeks here on a graduated programme of recovery, under military discipline, which built them back up to full fitness. After the 6 weeks he is discharged and marched into No 1 Command Depot at Perham Downs. He spent two and a half weeks there before returning to duty on 12th September 1916 with the 6th Training Battalion.
In mid-December Frank made it to France. He joined his Battalion on 17th December 1916. His time with the Battalion was short as only three and a half weeks later on 10th January 1917 he reported sick and was admitted to the ANZAC Casualty Clearing Station with a septic forefinger. By the 14th January when he is admitted to the 10th General Hospital in Rouen, France the infection has spread to his forearm. The infection didn't improve and he was embarked for England on HMHS St Andrew on the 31st January and admitted to the Southwark Military Hospital, East Dulwich. Frank was finally discharged on 5th March. He reported to No 1 Command Depot at Perham Downs on 20th March, after 2 weeks furlough.
Frank was transferred to the 65th Battalion for 6 months returning to the 21st on 19th September 1917. On 4th December Frank proceeded overseas to France and rejoined his Battalion in the field. It is 9 months before there is another entry in Frank's file. On 1st September 1918 he is wounded in action and admitted to 9th Australian Field Ambulance with a severe gunshot wound to his thigh. The following day he was transferred to the 6th General Hospital at Rouen, France, then transferred to England on HMHS Carisbrooke Castle on the 5th September. Frank spent seven weeks at the Voluntary Aid Hospital, Cheltenham before being transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital, Dartford for a few days. Two months after being wounded he was discharged to No 2 Command Depot at Weymouth. A month later, on 3rd December, he moved to No 1 Command depot at Sutton Veny to await his return to Australia. Frank departed England on 17th March 1919 on HMHS Plassy and arrived in Melbourne on 30th April 1919.
Mjr. Adolar Merkatz
German Army 6/Fus.Regiment 35
(d.6th Aug 1914)
Drvr. Charles John Merrett MM
British Army 173rd Brigade, B Bty Royal Field Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
Driver Merrett was the son of Arthur H Merrett and husband of Agnes Eva Merrett, 20 Inworth Street, Battersea, London. He was aged 29 when he died. He is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, France, Panel 7-10.
Pte. Ernest Nelson Merrett
British Army 17th Battalion Welsh Regiment
from:Newport, Monmouthshire
(d.27th July 1917)
Pte. George Arthur Merrick
British Army 7th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Tay I Got, Gloucestershire
George Merrick was honourably discharged on 21st of June 1916 with shrapnel wounds in both legs. He had enlisted on 12th of August 1914. Went to Gallipoli where he was reported as wounded on 20th of September 1915. He was evacuated to Malta because of his serious wounds and sent home to be discharged on 21st of January 1916.
Pte. Thomas Victor Merrick
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.12th Oct 1916)
Thomas Merrick served with the 1st Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment.
Gnr. Arthur Merridan
British Army 110 Bde. D Bty. Royal Field Artillery
from:Woolwich
(d.20th April 1918)
Arthur Merridan was born in Woolwich in 1890. In 1914 he married Minnie Page and they had a son also named Arthur was born in 1916. He was killed in 1918 and is buried in Godewaersvelde British Cemetery.
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